Alex Leonard’s blog

So I'm thinking about moving my personal blog to my own domain, alex.leonard.ie, for no major reason but it feels like it's the right thing to do.

I've had a few people mention the fact that they have to join vox to comment here, and I don't want to think that I'm excluding anyone ;)

Also, I have that domain name sitting their idle and it feels like a waste.

So I went looking for a method of exporting my blog posts from Vox and lo and behold one doesn't exist. It's a bit of a shame - I didn't realise my posts would be locked in here, so I'm faced with two options.

1. Wait until the Vox team create an export function.
2. Go through every post on this blog manually, copying and pasting it over to my own domain.

Neither option is ideal really, as I don't know when option 1 might happen, and option 2, well, copying and pasting over 200 blog posts might take a while..

Any suggestions anyone? I'd be planning on keeping this vox account so that I can comment on my neighbours vox's, but other than that I think I'd be doing everything else over on my own domain, and would love to see some people from vox drop a comment in on occassion!

This had me laughing uncontrollably. Brilliant stuff..

I have to say that I found this very amusing..

6cxcek

I found it here: http://memex.naughtons.org/archives/2008/04/11/5009

However they don't seem to know where it came from originally!

You may or may not care about this, but as a designer this is definitely important to me.

Taken from http://www.email-standards.org/gmail-appeal

By the way, my ugly mug is the very last one in the video.

Bertie

Huzzah! Bertie Ahern, head of the Irish government, has resigned. He's a crook, and should never have lasted as long in power as he did.

You can watch RTE's news reports about it here: http://www.rte.ie/live/

I found his brother's comment amusing, on being asked what he thought of Bertie's decision to resign:

He's usually right in the decisions he makes

Show us something you're allegic to.

This is the only thing I'm aware of - the problem is that it's really small and I can't avoid it when it's around...

Pollen

In honor of Johnny Appleseed Day, show us a tree.

Trees along Glendalough Lake

PicLens Screen Shot

Well, it might not be king, based on how much usage I get from it, but PicLens is definitely a beauty to play around with, and it's functional too.

I've written a full write-up on my business blog, so I won't repeat it verbatim here, but if you're interested in my ramblings, check out:

http://www.pixelapes.com/2008/03/11/pic-lens-best-browser-extension/

Otherwise, just go to Mozilla's site and install the extension:

https://addons.mozilla.org/da/firefox/addon/5579

Obviously, you're going to need Firefox as your web browser to test this out - but why would you use anything else!

Whilst it feels a little strange blogging about Word Press on one of Six Apart's blogging tools (especially given Anil Dash's reasonably nasty competitive post about Word Press), I don't feel disinclined to mention it.

I love Word Press. I've been using it heavily for all manner of projects over the past few years for all manner of clients of ours over at Pixelapes Web Design. It's been an excellent learning experience and I've found out how to bend Word Press to all sorts of applications.

Apparently Word Press 2.5 was due out yesterday, with a large amount of the update being focussed on a complete redesign of the admin area. Unfortunately the tentative date hasn't come through so I'm left waiting a little longer. I'm hopeful it will be soon as I'm really quite excited about this update and think it will make a big difference to my usage of Word Press.

Roll on Word Press!  

I came across this poem I haven't read in years and found myself loving it once again. Figured I'd post it up here for the sake of nothing but spreading it around some..

in other words

by charles bukowski

the Egyptians loved the cat

were entomed with it

instead of with the women

and never with the dog

but now

here

good people with

good eyes

are very few

yet fine cats

with great style

lounge about

in the alleys of

the universe.

about

our argument tonight

whatever it was

about

and

no matter how unhappy

it made us

feel

remember that

there is a

cat

somewhere

adjusting to the

space of itself

with a delightful

grace

in other words

magic persists

without us

no matter what

we may try to do

to spoil it.